NSF Funding Opportunities
for Cybersecurity Education
and Workforce Development
Victor Piotrowski
Program Director
CyberCorps® (SFS) and SaTC
Division
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Estimate of the number of information
security professionals (Frost & Sullivan)
Table 1 on page 9 of the 2011 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study
(https://www.isc2.org/uploadedFiles/Industry_Resources/FS_WP_ISC%20Study_020811_ML
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“Forecast for
Information Security Professionals”.
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Challenge: Computer and IS Degrees in
2010-2020
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Challenge: Cybersecurity and Big Data
“By 2018 the United States
alone faces a shortage of
140,000 to 190,000 people
with analytical expertise
and 1.5 million managers
and analysts with the skills
to understand and make
decisions based on the
analysis of big data.”
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McKinsey & Company
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McKinsey&Company
(May 2011),
“Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity.” Available at:
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Cybersecurity Education - Funding
Opportunities at NSF
 CyberCorps®:Scholarship for Service
(SFS) –$300-900K per Capacity project;
$1-5M per Scholarship project
 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
(SaTC) – up to $300K/project
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CyberCorps®:
Scholarship For Service (SFS)
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CyberCorps®: SFS Mission and Structure
The CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks to
increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of
information assurance and computer security and to increase the
capacity of the United States higher education enterprise to
continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs
of our increasingly technological society.
The SFS program is composed of two tracks:
• The Scholarship Track provides funding to colleges and
universities to award scholarships to students.
• The Capacity Building Track providing funds to support
curriculum, outreach,
faculty, institutional, and/or partnership
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CyberCorps®: SFS Scholarship Track
 Scholarship Component:
 Funding: tuition, fees, and stipends ($20K/$32K per year)
 Length: 2-3 year scholarship for final years of undergraduate or
graduate (master’s or doctoral) education
 Obligation: Summer internship, post-graduation service requirement
(work in Federal agency equal to scholarship length)
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Student Eligibility:
U.S. Citizen
Enrolled in IA program, within 2-3 years of graduation
Eligible for Federal employment (must be able to acquire security
clearance)
 Awardee institutions set additional selection criteria
 Institution Eligibility:
 National CAE/IAE designation or equivalent (DC3 Forensics, NSA
Cyber
Ops or alternative evidence)
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full-time program
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SFS Capacity Building - Myths
• Institutions need to be NSA/DHS
designated as CAE (False)
• Projects must build capacity for
Scholarship proposals (False)
• Projects are not allowed to target K-12
space (False)
• Identical projects may be submitted to
both, SFS and SaTC-EDU (False)
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NSF SaTC Education Perspective – 2013 Awards
PI
Institutions
Title
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Morris
U of Alabama
Mississippi State
A Multimedia-based Virtual Classroom for Cyber-Physical Systems
Security Education
Murphy
Marymount U
Cybersecurity Competitions in the Healthcare Environment
Du
Yang
Yuan
Syracuse U
U of Tennessee N
Carolina A&T
Bolstering Security Education through Transiting Research on
Browser Security
Williams
N Carolina SU
Software Security Education
Li
U of Georgia
Stepwise and Reusable Problem-solving Challenges
Chandy
U of Connecticut
A Virtual Lab for a Hardware Security Curriculum
Goel
SUNY at Albany
Flipping the Security Classroom
Hicks
U of Maryland CP Build it, Break it, Fix it - A new security contest
Manson
Cal Poly Pomona
National Cybersecurity Sports Federation
Qaissaunee Brookdale CC
New Jersey CyberCenter
Dark
Information Security Research and Education (INSuRE)
Purdue U
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Bashir
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U of Illinois U-C AND
Enhancing the Cyber Security Workforce - The Human Angle
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Proposal Deadlines
•CyberCorps® (SFS)
•Scholarships – October, 2014
•Capacity – November, 2014
•SaTC
•EDU Perspective – December, 2014
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Questions?
Comments…
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